RW/FF is very proud to be one of the music blogs taking part in Universal Horse's monthly Alternative Top 40. As well as blogger folk like me, you too can be part of the Top 40 and make your current musical turn-ons count towards the chart each month... The Alternative Top 40 is a monthly music chart shared across multiple music blogs, and a great way of discovering music you might not have heard elsewhere. You can contribute to the #AltTop40 by simply naming your favorite tracks of the moment - for full details of how to nominate music, see the latest post about the chart at Universal Horse.
The Alt Top 40 is not based on sales, or radio play – or, indeed, any form of objective measure. Instead, anyone who wants can simply tell us the tracks they want to see in the chart, and the more people we hear about a track from, the higher up it goes. So there are two ways that you can contribute to and directly influence future editions of the Alternative top 40:
1. Jack Adaptor - Get It Right First Time
2. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni
3. Hazel Winter - YDFLM
4. Swans - She Loves Us
5. Lana del Rey - West Coast
6. Parquet Courts - Bodies Made Of
7. Rabit - Red Candles
8. Jemima Surrender - My Little Brother
9. St Vincent - Your Lips Are Red
10. Kogumaza - NB / Kолокол / Ursids
11. Patrick Duff - Thought Birds / +12. SJ Esau - Frustrating / +13. Fingersnap - Blackbirds / +14. Tune-Yards - Gangsta / +15. Alicia Catling - Mighty Fine / +16. Laurel Halo - Supersymmetry / +17. Sia - Chandelier / +18. Julie Fowlis - Ged a Sheol Mi Air M'aineol / +19. Bob Mould - The War / +20. Marilyn Manson - Disposable Teens / +21. Happyness - Great Minds Think Alike, All Brains Taste the Same / +22. Daisy Victoria - Macbeth to my Lady / +23. Tape Waves - Looking at the Sun / +24. Roddy Frame - Postcard / +25. Steve Mason - All Come Down/ +26. Robert Plant - Little Maggie / +27. SJ Esau - Soul II Skull / +28. Carla Bozulich - Lazy Crossbones / +29. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks / +30. Jemima Surrender - Anathema / +31. Michael O'Neill - Cheetham Hill Speed Scene / +32. Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life / +33. Mankind - Blood Sugar / +34. Shacklock Meth Party - Johnny B Goode/ +35. Manic Street Preachers - Europa Geht Durch Mich / +36. Patrick Duff - Maria / +37. Tune-Yards - Left Behind / +38. Path - Apocalyptica feat. Sandra Nasic / +39. Camper van Beethoven - It Was Like That When We Got Here / +40. Archie Bronson Outfit - In White Relief / +
Follow the Alternative Top 40 on Facebook and Twitter. #AltTop40
If you have a website, zine, podcast or similar and would like to host the chart there too, get in touch at alternativetop40@gmail.com. Firstly, if you tell us what you think are the best 5 tracks in the world this week, we’ll compile them into the next edition of the chart. At the end of this post there’s a contact form where you can fill your choices in, or just email your selection to alternativetop40@gmail.com - best one first. You can pick anything you like – from any time, and any place – with the exception of your own music or a band you work for. Five is the maximum: if you can only think of a couple you want to name, send them in anyway...
This month's chart was shaped by
Record Rewind Play - DrunkenWerewolf - God Is In The TV - Neon Filler – RW/FF - Monolith Cocktail
